Department of English

Jon Hegglund

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Biography

Jon Hegglund spent his earliest years moving around the United States before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of eight. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, leaving the coastal paradise in 1998. He then taught for four years at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT, before coming to WSU in 2002.
Teaching Interests

Hegglund teaches undergraduate courses in modernism, twentieth-century Anglophone fiction, postcolonial literature and theory, film narrative, and documentary film. He has also taught a number of graduate seminars, including "Modernism and Empire," "Modernism and Film," and "Theories of Space and Place in Literature and Culture."